[Samba] Using ZFS Case insensitive filesystems with Samba

Miguel Medalha miguelmedalha at sapo.pt
Sun Mar 2 09:37:44 MST 2014


>> Here's something I learned when working with the FreeNAS folks :

>> ZFS can be configured to be case insensitive when
>> you create the filesystem (NOTE - cannot be altered
>> *after* the filesystem is created).

>> zfs create -o casesensitivity=insensitive filesystem


In this case, will ZFS preserve capitals in file and directory names if they are so created (/Data instead of /data)?

I mean, replicating Windows behavior, which is neither case-sensitive nor case-insensitive but case-preserving.

Thank you!


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